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1 Killed, 2 Injured In Triple Shooting
Suspect In Custody, Police Say
1:03 p.m. CDT August 19, 2003
NEW ORLEANS -- A man who yelled at a passing motorist to slow down paid for it with his life in a Tuesday morning shooting, according to the St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office.
The man, Danny Foto, age unknown, was shot in the chest. He died at the scene. Foto's son, Bryson, 3, and a neighbor, Steve Miller, age unknown, were injured. They were taken to Charity Hospital. Their conditions are not known.
The alleged shooter, Louis Schenk Jr., 45, is in custody, police said.
The shooting happened at about 7:15 a.m. in the Lexington Place subdivision, a quiet, upper-middle class neighborhood in Meraux. According to investigators, Foto was holding his 3-year-old and escorting an older child to an approaching school bus, as was Miller, when a car came speeding down the street. Foto and Miller both began waving at the driver, signaling him to slow down. The driver stopped about half a block away, exited his vehicle and opened fire with a shotgun, Sheriff Jack Stephens said.
A witness said the bus driver grabbed Foto's older child, a daughter, put her on the bus, and drove her to safety.
Deputies caught Schenk walking down the street still holding the shotgun, Stephens said.
Schenk, whose parents live in the neighborhhod, has a history of mental illness, Stephens said. Neighbors said he disappeared from the area for a while and had just recently returned
1 Killed, 2 Injured In Triple Shooting
Suspect In Custody, Police Say
1:03 p.m. CDT August 19, 2003
NEW ORLEANS -- A man who yelled at a passing motorist to slow down paid for it with his life in a Tuesday morning shooting, according to the St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office.
The man, Danny Foto, age unknown, was shot in the chest. He died at the scene. Foto's son, Bryson, 3, and a neighbor, Steve Miller, age unknown, were injured. They were taken to Charity Hospital. Their conditions are not known.
The alleged shooter, Louis Schenk Jr., 45, is in custody, police said.
The shooting happened at about 7:15 a.m. in the Lexington Place subdivision, a quiet, upper-middle class neighborhood in Meraux. According to investigators, Foto was holding his 3-year-old and escorting an older child to an approaching school bus, as was Miller, when a car came speeding down the street. Foto and Miller both began waving at the driver, signaling him to slow down. The driver stopped about half a block away, exited his vehicle and opened fire with a shotgun, Sheriff Jack Stephens said.
A witness said the bus driver grabbed Foto's older child, a daughter, put her on the bus, and drove her to safety.
Deputies caught Schenk walking down the street still holding the shotgun, Stephens said.
Schenk, whose parents live in the neighborhhod, has a history of mental illness, Stephens said. Neighbors said he disappeared from the area for a while and had just recently returned